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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
GALTIONS 6:7
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
OTHER WORST HISTORY TERRORIST ORLANDO STORIES
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-07-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-05-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-04-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/what-we-know-about-islamic-muslim-mass.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-3-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-2-of-worst-mass-shooting-and-2nd.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/42-injured-and-at-least-up-to-20-dead.html
CITY OF ORLANDO
http://www.cityoforlando.net/
http://www.cityoforlando.net/police/criminal-investigations/
NEWS
http://www.cityoforlando.net/news/
VICTIM NAME WEBSITE
Cityoforlando.net/victim
GALTIONS 6:7
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
OTHER WORST HISTORY TERRORIST ORLANDO STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-08-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-07-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-06-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-05-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-04-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/what-we-know-about-islamic-muslim-mass.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-3-of-49-killed-worst-mass-shooting.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/day-2-of-worst-mass-shooting-and-2nd.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/42-injured-and-at-least-up-to-20-dead.html
CITY OF ORLANDO
http://www.cityoforlando.net/
http://www.cityoforlando.net/police/criminal-investigations/
NEWS
http://www.cityoforlando.net/news/
VICTIM NAME WEBSITE
Cityoforlando.net/victim
UPDATE-JUNE 20,2016-12:16PM
BY THE SOUNDS OF IT-MOST OF THE SHOOTINGS OCURED AT THE BEGGINING OF THE SEIGE.AND AT THE END OF THE HOSTAGE MURDER TAKING. WELL WE KNOW 23 PEOPLE DIED AT THE END OF THE HOSTAGE TAKING. SO AT THE BEGGINING. MATEEN MUST HAVE SHOT AT LEAST 26 AND INJURED THE OTHER 53. THE POLICE ALSO SAID IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE. THAT SOME OFFICERS MIGHT HAVE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SOME OF THE DEAD TRYING TO GET THE SHOOTER MATEEN. BUT THE PRESS CONFERENCE GUY SAID. MATEEN WILL BE BLAMED FOR THE OFFICERS ACCIDENTAL KILLINGS. BUT ONE THING I DID NOT LIKE ABOUT THE TRANSCRIPTS. THEY LEFT IN WHAT PRAISED THE MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM. BUT THEN IN THE REST OF THE TRANSCRIPTS.THEY DELETED ANYTHING THAT TALKED ABOUT ISLAM SUCH AS ISIS OR THE TSARNAEV BROTHERS. I BELIEVE ON PURPOSE THEY LEFT ANYTHING ABOUT ISLAM OUT. TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A SODOMITE GAY HATE CRIME INSTEAD. SO THEY DO NOT HAVE TO ADMIT IT WAS A TERRORIST ISLAMIC-MUSLIM ATTACK.
BY THE SOUNDS OF IT-MOST OF THE SHOOTINGS OCURED AT THE BEGGINING OF THE SEIGE.AND AT THE END OF THE HOSTAGE MURDER TAKING. WELL WE KNOW 23 PEOPLE DIED AT THE END OF THE HOSTAGE TAKING. SO AT THE BEGGINING. MATEEN MUST HAVE SHOT AT LEAST 26 AND INJURED THE OTHER 53. THE POLICE ALSO SAID IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE. THAT SOME OFFICERS MIGHT HAVE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SOME OF THE DEAD TRYING TO GET THE SHOOTER MATEEN. BUT THE PRESS CONFERENCE GUY SAID. MATEEN WILL BE BLAMED FOR THE OFFICERS ACCIDENTAL KILLINGS. BUT ONE THING I DID NOT LIKE ABOUT THE TRANSCRIPTS. THEY LEFT IN WHAT PRAISED THE MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM. BUT THEN IN THE REST OF THE TRANSCRIPTS.THEY DELETED ANYTHING THAT TALKED ABOUT ISLAM SUCH AS ISIS OR THE TSARNAEV BROTHERS. I BELIEVE ON PURPOSE THEY LEFT ANYTHING ABOUT ISLAM OUT. TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A SODOMITE GAY HATE CRIME INSTEAD. SO THEY DO NOT HAVE TO ADMIT IT WAS A TERRORIST ISLAMIC-MUSLIM ATTACK.
UPDATE-JUNE 20,2016-12:00AM
THE GODLESS LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS AND THE OBAMA MOMMA SUNNI-ARAB-MUSLIM ARE ALL WANTING GUNS BANNED AS A RESULT OF THIS ISLAMIC-MUSLIM DEATH CULT MURDER OF 49 SODOMITES. THE LOONIE LEFT AND LUKEWARM GODLESS WANT TO MAKE THIS A GUN AND SODOMITE HATE CRIME. INSTEAD OF WHAT IT TRULY IS. AN ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIM-ALLU-AK-BAR-MUHAMMAD-DEATH CULT-MOON WAR GOD ALLAH TERRORIST ATTACK ON ISLAMIC HATING SODOMITES. AND NOBODYS GONNA EVER TELL ME ANYTHING DIFFERENT. THESE GODLESS LOONIES MAY HAVE THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND-NOT ME. I'M GONNA SPEAK TRUTH.NOT LIES. I GUESS THE LEFT-WING NUTJOBS THINK ALL THE GUN MURDERS IN CHICAGO ARE SODOMITE HATE CRIMES TO. BUT THEY WOULD NEVER SAY THAT. BECAUSE IF YOU TALK OUT AGAINST BLACKS KILLING BLACKS BY THE HUNDREDS EVERY MONTH IN CHICAGO.YOUR A RACIST-HATER-BIGOT. BUT DO THESE NUTJOB LEFT-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS CALL FOR A BAN ON ALL GUNS IN CHICAGO TO STOP THIS THUG-BLACK-GANGLAND SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. NO. CAN WE SAY THESE POLITICALLY CORRECT LEFT-NUTJOB-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS ARE A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES. THAT CRY FOWL AGAINST GUNS WHEN THEIR SODOMITE PALS GET MURDERED BY ISLAMIC RADICALS. BUT STILL LET BLACK THUGS-GANG BANG-DRUG DEALERS - DRIVE BY SHOOTERS KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE IN CHICAGO ON A DAILY BASIS. OH I FORGOT BECAUSE OF THE BAD ECONOMY-THE BLACKS ARE ALLOWED TO KILL AND SLAUGHTER INNOCENT PEOPLE IN CHICAGO AND GET AWAY WITH IT. FOR THE GOOD OF THE LEFT-WING-LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT CAUSE OF COURSE. AND THERES NO BAN ON GUNS IN CHICAGO.
Orlando shooter’s 911 call transcripts: Omar Mateen warned he had vest like those ‘used in France’-[Jason Sickles]-June 20, 2016-YAHOONEWS
“You people are gonna get it,” Orlando shooter Omar Mateen told emergency responders in one of several conversations on 911 calls the night of his massacre at Pulse nightclub that killed 49 people.Investigators on Monday released partial transcripts of conversations between Mateen and police. The transcripts reveal that Mateen told police he had a vest like those “used in France,” referring to the November 2015 terror attack in Paris that killed 130 people in a series of attacks. He also said that a vehicle outside the club had been loaded with “some bombs” and at one point said he planned to put explosive vests on four hostages.He pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on the call and later threatened that his attack on Pulse would not be the only of its kind. “In the next few days, you’re going to see more of this type of action going on,” he said.Mateen, an American born to Afghani immigrants, killed 49 people and injured 53 others at the popular gay dance club on June 12.Portions of the transcripts where Mateen named the group or individual to whom he pledged his allegiance amid the attacks were omitted by the FBI.When questioned in a Monday press conference on the reason for omissions in the transcript, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ronald Hopper said, “We’re not going to propagate violent rhetoric that comes from other people whether it be here or overseas.”“While we are not releasing the 911 calls, I can tell you the killer did so in a chilling, calm and deliberate manner,” Hopper said.On Sunday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the transcripts would omit references to ISIS and the Islamic State terror group’s leaders out of respect for the victims and their families.“The reason why we’re going to limit these transcripts is to avoid revictimizing those who went through this horror,” Lynch told CNN. “But it will contain the substance of his conversations. And there were three conversations between this killer and negotiators.”According to the transcripts released Monday, Mateen did not reveal his feelings about homosexuals nor the LGBT community during those calls.“We’re still exploring why he chose this particular place to attack,” Lynch said.The following is based on Orlando Police Department (OPD) radio communication (times are approximate): 2:02 a.m.: OPD call transmitted multiple shots fired at Pulse nightclub. 2:04a.m.: Additional OPD officers arrived on scene. 2:08 a.m.: Officers from various law enforcement agencies made entrance to Pulse and engaged the shooter. 2:18 a.m.: OPD S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons & Tactics) initiated a full call-out. 2:35 a.m.: Shooter contacted a 911 operator from inside Pulse. The call lasted approximately 50 seconds, the details of which are set out below: Orlando Police Dispatcher (OD)-Shooter (OM)-OD: Emergency 911, this is being recorded. OM: In the name of God the Merciful, the beneficial [in Arabic]-OD: What? OM: Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of God [in Arabic]. I let you know, I’m in Orlando and I did the shootings.OD: What’s your name? OM: My name is I pledge of allegiance to [omitted].OD: Ok, What’s your name? OM: I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted]. OD: Alright, where are you at? OM: In Orlando. OD: Where in Orlando? [End of call.]-(Shortly thereafter, the shooter engaged in three conversations with OPD’s Crisis Negotiation Team.)- 2:48 a.m.: First crisis negotiation call occurred lasting approximately nine minutes. 3:03 a.m.: Second crisis negotiation call occurred lasting approximately 16 minutes.3:24 a.m.: Third crisis negotiation call occurred lasting approximately three minutes.In these calls, the shooter, who identified himself as an Islamic soldier, told the crisis negotiator that he was the person who pledged his allegiance to [omitted], and told the negotiator to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq and that is why he was “out here right now.” When the crisis negotiator asked the shooter what he had done, the shooter stated, “No, you already know what I did.” The shooter continued, stating, “There is some vehicle outside that has some bombs, just to let you know. You people are gonna get it, and I’m gonna ignite it if they try to do anything stupid.” Later in the call with the crisis negotiator, the shooter stated that he had a vest, and further described it as the kind they “used in France.” The shooter later stated, “In the next few days, you’re going to see more of this type of action going on.” The shooter hung up and multiple attempts to get in touch with him were unsuccessful.4:21 a.m.: OPD pulled an air conditioning unit out of a Pulse dressing room window for victims to evacuate.(While the FBI will not be releasing transcripts of OPD communication with victims, significant information obtained from those victims allowed OPD to gain knowledge of the situation inside Pulse.)- 4:29 a.m.: As victims were being rescued, they told OPD the shooter said he was going to put four vests with bombs on victims within 15 minutes.(An immediate search of the shooter’s vehicle on scene and inside Pulse ultimately revealed no vest or improvised explosive device.)- 5:02 a.m.: OPD SWAT and OCSO Hazardous Device Team began to breach wall with explosive charge and armored vehicle to make entry.5:14 a.m.: OPD radio communication stated that shots were fired.5:15 a.m.: OPD radio communication stated that OPD engaged the suspect and the suspect was reported down.Based on OPD radio communications, there were no reports of shots being fired inside Pulse between the initial exchange of gunfire between responding officers and shooter, and the time of the final breach. During this time, the shooter communicated with an OPD 911 operator and an OPD crisis negotiator, and OPD radio communications reported that victims were being rescued.(This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.)-Yahoo News reporter Dylan Stableford contributed to this report.Jason Sickles is a national reporter for Yahoo News. Follow him on Twitter (@jasonsickles).
Supreme Court rejects challenge to state assault weapon bans-[Reuters]-By Lawrence Hurley-June 20, 2016
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place gun control laws in New York and Connecticut that ban assault weapons like the one used in last week's massacre at an Orlando nightclub, rejecting a challenge brought by gun rights advocates.The court's action underlined its reluctance to insert itself into the simmering national debate on gun control. The justices have not made a major gun rights ruling since 2010.The justices declined to hear an appeal of an October ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld laws prohibiting semiautomatic weapons and large capacity magazines in the two northeastern states.The laws in New York and Connecticut, among the strictest in the nation, were enacted after a gunman with a semiautomatic rifle killed 20 young children and six educators in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.The challengers had asserted that the laws violated the U.S. Constitution's protection of the right to bear arms. The court denied the appeal with no comment or recorded vote.The gunman in the June 12 attack at an Orlando gay night club that killed 49 people, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, used a semiautomatic rifle that would have been banned in New York and Connecticut.In total, seven states and the District of Columbia ban semi-automatic rifles. A national law barring assault weapons expired in 2004, and congressional Republicans and some Democrats, backed by the influential National Rifle Association gun rights lobby, beat back efforts to restore it.The United States has among the most permissive gun policies in the world. Because the U.S. Congress has been a graveyard for gun control legislation, some states and localities have enacted their own measures.The U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, but there is a longstanding legal debate over its scope.The Supreme Court issued important rulings in gun cases in 2008 and 2010 but has not taken up a major firearms case since.In December, the court declined to hear a challenge to a Illinois town's assault weapons ban. But the justices in March threw out a Massachusetts court ruling that stun guns are not covered by the Second Amendment and sent the case back to the state's top court for further proceedings.In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the court held for the first time that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual's right to bear arms, but the ruling applied only to firearms kept in the home for self-defense. That ruling did not involve a state law and applied only to federal regulations. Two years later, in the case McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court held that the Heller ruling covered individual gun rights in states.The court lost one of its strongest pro-gun rights members in February when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died.The expired federal assault gun ban had barred the manufacture and sale of semi-automatic guns with military-style features as well as magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.The New York and Connecticut laws were challenged by pro-gun groups including the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association as well as individual gun owners. The appeals court consolidated the two cases and upheld the law.The Connecticut challengers appealed to the Supreme Court while the New York ones did not. However, an individual gun owner, Douglas Kampfer, who had a parallel legal challenge to the New York law that also lost at the appeals court level asked the Supreme Court to hear his case.(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)
THE GODLESS LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS AND THE OBAMA MOMMA SUNNI-ARAB-MUSLIM ARE ALL WANTING GUNS BANNED AS A RESULT OF THIS ISLAMIC-MUSLIM DEATH CULT MURDER OF 49 SODOMITES. THE LOONIE LEFT AND LUKEWARM GODLESS WANT TO MAKE THIS A GUN AND SODOMITE HATE CRIME. INSTEAD OF WHAT IT TRULY IS. AN ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIM-ALLU-AK-BAR-MUHAMMAD-DEATH CULT-MOON WAR GOD ALLAH TERRORIST ATTACK ON ISLAMIC HATING SODOMITES. AND NOBODYS GONNA EVER TELL ME ANYTHING DIFFERENT. THESE GODLESS LOONIES MAY HAVE THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND-NOT ME. I'M GONNA SPEAK TRUTH.NOT LIES. I GUESS THE LEFT-WING NUTJOBS THINK ALL THE GUN MURDERS IN CHICAGO ARE SODOMITE HATE CRIMES TO. BUT THEY WOULD NEVER SAY THAT. BECAUSE IF YOU TALK OUT AGAINST BLACKS KILLING BLACKS BY THE HUNDREDS EVERY MONTH IN CHICAGO.YOUR A RACIST-HATER-BIGOT. BUT DO THESE NUTJOB LEFT-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS CALL FOR A BAN ON ALL GUNS IN CHICAGO TO STOP THIS THUG-BLACK-GANGLAND SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. NO. CAN WE SAY THESE POLITICALLY CORRECT LEFT-NUTJOB-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS ARE A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES. THAT CRY FOWL AGAINST GUNS WHEN THEIR SODOMITE PALS GET MURDERED BY ISLAMIC RADICALS. BUT STILL LET BLACK THUGS-GANG BANG-DRUG DEALERS - DRIVE BY SHOOTERS KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE IN CHICAGO ON A DAILY BASIS. OH I FORGOT BECAUSE OF THE BAD ECONOMY-THE BLACKS ARE ALLOWED TO KILL AND SLAUGHTER INNOCENT PEOPLE IN CHICAGO AND GET AWAY WITH IT. FOR THE GOOD OF THE LEFT-WING-LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT CAUSE OF COURSE. AND THERES NO BAN ON GUNS IN CHICAGO.
Orlando shooter’s 911 call transcripts: Omar Mateen warned he had vest like those ‘used in France’-[Jason Sickles]-June 20, 2016-YAHOONEWS
“You people are gonna get it,” Orlando shooter Omar Mateen told emergency responders in one of several conversations on 911 calls the night of his massacre at Pulse nightclub that killed 49 people.Investigators on Monday released partial transcripts of conversations between Mateen and police. The transcripts reveal that Mateen told police he had a vest like those “used in France,” referring to the November 2015 terror attack in Paris that killed 130 people in a series of attacks. He also said that a vehicle outside the club had been loaded with “some bombs” and at one point said he planned to put explosive vests on four hostages.He pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on the call and later threatened that his attack on Pulse would not be the only of its kind. “In the next few days, you’re going to see more of this type of action going on,” he said.Mateen, an American born to Afghani immigrants, killed 49 people and injured 53 others at the popular gay dance club on June 12.Portions of the transcripts where Mateen named the group or individual to whom he pledged his allegiance amid the attacks were omitted by the FBI.When questioned in a Monday press conference on the reason for omissions in the transcript, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ronald Hopper said, “We’re not going to propagate violent rhetoric that comes from other people whether it be here or overseas.”“While we are not releasing the 911 calls, I can tell you the killer did so in a chilling, calm and deliberate manner,” Hopper said.On Sunday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the transcripts would omit references to ISIS and the Islamic State terror group’s leaders out of respect for the victims and their families.“The reason why we’re going to limit these transcripts is to avoid revictimizing those who went through this horror,” Lynch told CNN. “But it will contain the substance of his conversations. And there were three conversations between this killer and negotiators.”According to the transcripts released Monday, Mateen did not reveal his feelings about homosexuals nor the LGBT community during those calls.“We’re still exploring why he chose this particular place to attack,” Lynch said.The following is based on Orlando Police Department (OPD) radio communication (times are approximate): 2:02 a.m.: OPD call transmitted multiple shots fired at Pulse nightclub. 2:04a.m.: Additional OPD officers arrived on scene. 2:08 a.m.: Officers from various law enforcement agencies made entrance to Pulse and engaged the shooter. 2:18 a.m.: OPD S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons & Tactics) initiated a full call-out. 2:35 a.m.: Shooter contacted a 911 operator from inside Pulse. The call lasted approximately 50 seconds, the details of which are set out below: Orlando Police Dispatcher (OD)-Shooter (OM)-OD: Emergency 911, this is being recorded. OM: In the name of God the Merciful, the beneficial [in Arabic]-OD: What? OM: Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of God [in Arabic]. I let you know, I’m in Orlando and I did the shootings.OD: What’s your name? OM: My name is I pledge of allegiance to [omitted].OD: Ok, What’s your name? OM: I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted]. OD: Alright, where are you at? OM: In Orlando. OD: Where in Orlando? [End of call.]-(Shortly thereafter, the shooter engaged in three conversations with OPD’s Crisis Negotiation Team.)- 2:48 a.m.: First crisis negotiation call occurred lasting approximately nine minutes. 3:03 a.m.: Second crisis negotiation call occurred lasting approximately 16 minutes.3:24 a.m.: Third crisis negotiation call occurred lasting approximately three minutes.In these calls, the shooter, who identified himself as an Islamic soldier, told the crisis negotiator that he was the person who pledged his allegiance to [omitted], and told the negotiator to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq and that is why he was “out here right now.” When the crisis negotiator asked the shooter what he had done, the shooter stated, “No, you already know what I did.” The shooter continued, stating, “There is some vehicle outside that has some bombs, just to let you know. You people are gonna get it, and I’m gonna ignite it if they try to do anything stupid.” Later in the call with the crisis negotiator, the shooter stated that he had a vest, and further described it as the kind they “used in France.” The shooter later stated, “In the next few days, you’re going to see more of this type of action going on.” The shooter hung up and multiple attempts to get in touch with him were unsuccessful.4:21 a.m.: OPD pulled an air conditioning unit out of a Pulse dressing room window for victims to evacuate.(While the FBI will not be releasing transcripts of OPD communication with victims, significant information obtained from those victims allowed OPD to gain knowledge of the situation inside Pulse.)- 4:29 a.m.: As victims were being rescued, they told OPD the shooter said he was going to put four vests with bombs on victims within 15 minutes.(An immediate search of the shooter’s vehicle on scene and inside Pulse ultimately revealed no vest or improvised explosive device.)- 5:02 a.m.: OPD SWAT and OCSO Hazardous Device Team began to breach wall with explosive charge and armored vehicle to make entry.5:14 a.m.: OPD radio communication stated that shots were fired.5:15 a.m.: OPD radio communication stated that OPD engaged the suspect and the suspect was reported down.Based on OPD radio communications, there were no reports of shots being fired inside Pulse between the initial exchange of gunfire between responding officers and shooter, and the time of the final breach. During this time, the shooter communicated with an OPD 911 operator and an OPD crisis negotiator, and OPD radio communications reported that victims were being rescued.(This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.)-Yahoo News reporter Dylan Stableford contributed to this report.Jason Sickles is a national reporter for Yahoo News. Follow him on Twitter (@jasonsickles).
Supreme Court rejects challenge to state assault weapon bans-[Reuters]-By Lawrence Hurley-June 20, 2016
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place gun control laws in New York and Connecticut that ban assault weapons like the one used in last week's massacre at an Orlando nightclub, rejecting a challenge brought by gun rights advocates.The court's action underlined its reluctance to insert itself into the simmering national debate on gun control. The justices have not made a major gun rights ruling since 2010.The justices declined to hear an appeal of an October ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld laws prohibiting semiautomatic weapons and large capacity magazines in the two northeastern states.The laws in New York and Connecticut, among the strictest in the nation, were enacted after a gunman with a semiautomatic rifle killed 20 young children and six educators in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.The challengers had asserted that the laws violated the U.S. Constitution's protection of the right to bear arms. The court denied the appeal with no comment or recorded vote.The gunman in the June 12 attack at an Orlando gay night club that killed 49 people, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, used a semiautomatic rifle that would have been banned in New York and Connecticut.In total, seven states and the District of Columbia ban semi-automatic rifles. A national law barring assault weapons expired in 2004, and congressional Republicans and some Democrats, backed by the influential National Rifle Association gun rights lobby, beat back efforts to restore it.The United States has among the most permissive gun policies in the world. Because the U.S. Congress has been a graveyard for gun control legislation, some states and localities have enacted their own measures.The U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, but there is a longstanding legal debate over its scope.The Supreme Court issued important rulings in gun cases in 2008 and 2010 but has not taken up a major firearms case since.In December, the court declined to hear a challenge to a Illinois town's assault weapons ban. But the justices in March threw out a Massachusetts court ruling that stun guns are not covered by the Second Amendment and sent the case back to the state's top court for further proceedings.In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the court held for the first time that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual's right to bear arms, but the ruling applied only to firearms kept in the home for self-defense. That ruling did not involve a state law and applied only to federal regulations. Two years later, in the case McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court held that the Heller ruling covered individual gun rights in states.The court lost one of its strongest pro-gun rights members in February when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died.The expired federal assault gun ban had barred the manufacture and sale of semi-automatic guns with military-style features as well as magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.The New York and Connecticut laws were challenged by pro-gun groups including the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association as well as individual gun owners. The appeals court consolidated the two cases and upheld the law.The Connecticut challengers appealed to the Supreme Court while the New York ones did not. However, an individual gun owner, Douglas Kampfer, who had a parallel legal challenge to the New York law that also lost at the appeals court level asked the Supreme Court to hear his case.(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)
U.S. attorney general: Florida shooting "act of terror, act of hate"-[Reuters]-June 19, 2016-yahoonews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Sunday that last week's shooting massacre in Orlando, Florida, was "an act of terror and an act of hate", but she declined to divulge what charges may be filed or who may be charged in the case.Lynch told CNN's "State of the Union" program that she would be going to Orlando on Tuesday to confer with investigators, and on Monday would release transcripts of phone conversations between the deceased shooter, Omar Mateen, and police as the worst mass shooting incident in American history unfolded."We're going back and looking at everything we did in our investigation of the killer and our subsequent contact with him, but also, all the information we are receiving to trying and learn his motivations. This was an act of terror and an act of hate," Lynch told CNN.(Reporting By David Lawder; Editing by Gareth Jones)
U.S. Supreme Court may take action on state assault weapon bans-[Reuters]-June 19, 2016-yahoonews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in this week on gun control, an issue smoldering again following the June 12 Orlando massacre, with the justices due to decide whether to hear a challenge by gun rights advocates to assault weapon bans in two states.The Connecticut and New York laws prohibit semiautomatic weapons like the one used by the gunman who fatally shot 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.The Supreme Court will announce as soon as Monday whether it will hear the challenge brought by gun rights groups and individual firearms owners asserting that the laws violate the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms.The court has not decided a major gun case since 2010.If they take up the matter, the justices would hear arguments in their next term, which begins in October. A decision not to hear the challenge would leave in place lower-court rulings upholding the laws.The court's action in another recent appeal indicated it may be disinclined to take up the matter. The justices in December opted not to hear a challenge to a Highland Park, Illinois ordinance banning assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.A national assault weapons ban expired in 2004. Congressional Republicans, backed by the influential National Rifle Association gun rights lobby, beat back efforts to restore it. Some states and municipalities have enacted their own bans.In their petition asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, those challenging the Connecticut law said the type of weapons banned by the state are used in self-defense, hunting and recreational shooting.Connecticut said its law targets firearms disproportionately used in gun crime, "particularly the most heinous forms of gun violence." It said people in Connecticut still can legally own more than 1,000 types of handguns, rifles and shotguns.There is a longstanding legal debate over the scope of Second Amendment rights.In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court held for the first time that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual's right to bear arms, but the ruling applied only to firearms kept in the home for self-defense. That ruling did not involve a state law, applying only to federal regulations.Two years later, in the case McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court held that the Heller ruling covered individual gun rights in states.(Editing by Will Dunham)
Orlando attacks renew focus on security at smaller U.S. businesses-[By Nick Carey]-June 19, 2016-yahoonews
CHICAGO (Reuters) - While mass shooting attacks are on the rise, smaller U.S. businesses remain reluctant to invest in more physical security measures such as metal detectors or extra guards even though events like the Orlando massacre prompt a surge in interest, industry executives said.Major attacks like the one at a gay nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 people dead, often prompt a flurry of inquiries from potential customers to security companies. But the calls fail to translate into meaningful sales as owners tally the cost of the equipment and the extra personnel needed."With past mass shooting events people want to know how much additional security costs. Then they go, 'Gulp,'" said Bruce McIndoe, chief executive of risk advisory firm iJet International Inc.Those include upfront expenses like equipment and training as well as ongoing costs such as wages for guards. For nightclubs, minor sports venues, shopping malls and smaller college campuses, the financial burden can be too great.The trend stands in contrast to Europe, where companies say sales can spike after a major incident, such as the coordinated attacks on restaurants, a concert hall and soccer stadium in Paris in November that killed 130 people.The very next day, privately held First Texas Products sold 18 walk-through metal detectors that can cost up to $5,000 each to another stadium in France, said Tom Walsh, the company's chief executive.However, Walsh and other industry executives say the scope of the Orlando attack may lead more U.S. businesses, especially big ones, to invest in physical security measures already in place at sports stadiums, government buildings and airports.This week, a large U.S. retailer contacted First Texas Products to launch a test of its hand-held security wands, which start at around $100 each, in 50 stores. "They specifically mentioned the Orlando shootings," Walsh said in an email. He declined to name the client.Michael Gips of ASIS International, an association that represents more than 35,000 security professionals worldwide, said many businesses "roll the dice" over physical security.U.S. movie theaters have generally not installed metal detectors following the 2012 slaying of 12 people at a theater in Aurora, Colorado, because "it could drive customers away," he said. But he expects consumer concerns will change that calculus."Over time, I think people will expect a better degree of security if we continue to see shootings like this and that's what will drive change," Gips said.-COST OF DOING NOTHING-ASIS International estimates U.S. private sector spending on security goods and services jumped 18 percent to $377 billion in 2015 from 2013 and is "pushing $400 billion" this year, Gips said.Much of that growth has been driven by spending on surveillance equipment and on cyber protections following high-profile data breaches, such as the one that hit retailer Target Corp in 2013.Metal detectors debuted at U.S. airports in the early 1970s after a series of airplane hijackings. Government buildings and large public venues began installing them following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.Metal detectors are now mandatory at all major league U.S. football, baseball, basketball, hockey and football games. But their use has been slow to spread elsewhere, even though many security consultants see metal detectors as an effective first-line deterrent. "The harder a target you make yourself appear, the more likely potential attackers will go elsewhere," said Jason Porter, regional managing director for risk management firm Pinkerton. Smaller venues need to weigh their options carefully, said Luca Cacioli, director of U.S. operations for Italian firm CEIA, one of the world's largest metal detector manufacturers.At the same time, he said, "the cost of not doing anything or implementing ineffective solutions is certainly a key consideration."(Reporting by Nick Carey; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Cynthia Osterman)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Sunday that last week's shooting massacre in Orlando, Florida, was "an act of terror and an act of hate", but she declined to divulge what charges may be filed or who may be charged in the case.Lynch told CNN's "State of the Union" program that she would be going to Orlando on Tuesday to confer with investigators, and on Monday would release transcripts of phone conversations between the deceased shooter, Omar Mateen, and police as the worst mass shooting incident in American history unfolded."We're going back and looking at everything we did in our investigation of the killer and our subsequent contact with him, but also, all the information we are receiving to trying and learn his motivations. This was an act of terror and an act of hate," Lynch told CNN.(Reporting By David Lawder; Editing by Gareth Jones)
U.S. Supreme Court may take action on state assault weapon bans-[Reuters]-June 19, 2016-yahoonews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in this week on gun control, an issue smoldering again following the June 12 Orlando massacre, with the justices due to decide whether to hear a challenge by gun rights advocates to assault weapon bans in two states.The Connecticut and New York laws prohibit semiautomatic weapons like the one used by the gunman who fatally shot 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.The Supreme Court will announce as soon as Monday whether it will hear the challenge brought by gun rights groups and individual firearms owners asserting that the laws violate the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms.The court has not decided a major gun case since 2010.If they take up the matter, the justices would hear arguments in their next term, which begins in October. A decision not to hear the challenge would leave in place lower-court rulings upholding the laws.The court's action in another recent appeal indicated it may be disinclined to take up the matter. The justices in December opted not to hear a challenge to a Highland Park, Illinois ordinance banning assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.A national assault weapons ban expired in 2004. Congressional Republicans, backed by the influential National Rifle Association gun rights lobby, beat back efforts to restore it. Some states and municipalities have enacted their own bans.In their petition asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, those challenging the Connecticut law said the type of weapons banned by the state are used in self-defense, hunting and recreational shooting.Connecticut said its law targets firearms disproportionately used in gun crime, "particularly the most heinous forms of gun violence." It said people in Connecticut still can legally own more than 1,000 types of handguns, rifles and shotguns.There is a longstanding legal debate over the scope of Second Amendment rights.In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court held for the first time that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual's right to bear arms, but the ruling applied only to firearms kept in the home for self-defense. That ruling did not involve a state law, applying only to federal regulations.Two years later, in the case McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court held that the Heller ruling covered individual gun rights in states.(Editing by Will Dunham)
Orlando attacks renew focus on security at smaller U.S. businesses-[By Nick Carey]-June 19, 2016-yahoonews
CHICAGO (Reuters) - While mass shooting attacks are on the rise, smaller U.S. businesses remain reluctant to invest in more physical security measures such as metal detectors or extra guards even though events like the Orlando massacre prompt a surge in interest, industry executives said.Major attacks like the one at a gay nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 people dead, often prompt a flurry of inquiries from potential customers to security companies. But the calls fail to translate into meaningful sales as owners tally the cost of the equipment and the extra personnel needed."With past mass shooting events people want to know how much additional security costs. Then they go, 'Gulp,'" said Bruce McIndoe, chief executive of risk advisory firm iJet International Inc.Those include upfront expenses like equipment and training as well as ongoing costs such as wages for guards. For nightclubs, minor sports venues, shopping malls and smaller college campuses, the financial burden can be too great.The trend stands in contrast to Europe, where companies say sales can spike after a major incident, such as the coordinated attacks on restaurants, a concert hall and soccer stadium in Paris in November that killed 130 people.The very next day, privately held First Texas Products sold 18 walk-through metal detectors that can cost up to $5,000 each to another stadium in France, said Tom Walsh, the company's chief executive.However, Walsh and other industry executives say the scope of the Orlando attack may lead more U.S. businesses, especially big ones, to invest in physical security measures already in place at sports stadiums, government buildings and airports.This week, a large U.S. retailer contacted First Texas Products to launch a test of its hand-held security wands, which start at around $100 each, in 50 stores. "They specifically mentioned the Orlando shootings," Walsh said in an email. He declined to name the client.Michael Gips of ASIS International, an association that represents more than 35,000 security professionals worldwide, said many businesses "roll the dice" over physical security.U.S. movie theaters have generally not installed metal detectors following the 2012 slaying of 12 people at a theater in Aurora, Colorado, because "it could drive customers away," he said. But he expects consumer concerns will change that calculus."Over time, I think people will expect a better degree of security if we continue to see shootings like this and that's what will drive change," Gips said.-COST OF DOING NOTHING-ASIS International estimates U.S. private sector spending on security goods and services jumped 18 percent to $377 billion in 2015 from 2013 and is "pushing $400 billion" this year, Gips said.Much of that growth has been driven by spending on surveillance equipment and on cyber protections following high-profile data breaches, such as the one that hit retailer Target Corp in 2013.Metal detectors debuted at U.S. airports in the early 1970s after a series of airplane hijackings. Government buildings and large public venues began installing them following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.Metal detectors are now mandatory at all major league U.S. football, baseball, basketball, hockey and football games. But their use has been slow to spread elsewhere, even though many security consultants see metal detectors as an effective first-line deterrent. "The harder a target you make yourself appear, the more likely potential attackers will go elsewhere," said Jason Porter, regional managing director for risk management firm Pinkerton. Smaller venues need to weigh their options carefully, said Luca Cacioli, director of U.S. operations for Italian firm CEIA, one of the world's largest metal detector manufacturers.At the same time, he said, "the cost of not doing anything or implementing ineffective solutions is certainly a key consideration."(Reporting by Nick Carey; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Cynthia Osterman)